Anthony, Tammy. Captain and crew welcome the guests with a big ALOHA !!!! Captain Gregory starts with the aloha briefing. After the briefing the guests work on gear and getting settled into there rooms. Brain blows the conch shell indicating it’s time for dinner. Chef Mike has prepared a fabulous dinner. Dinner is finished and the guests retire to there fabulous staterooms.

May 15th

The Kona Aggressor heads south to there farthest dive sites. Todays dive sites will be Stony Mesas. After a hardy breakfast and Captain Gregory’s deck briefing. The guests suit up for some Hawaiian style diving. Stony Mesas will be are first dive site.

Stony has beautiful rock and ledge formation with a swim through that leads you to an opening on the surface. After brief buoyancy check the divers head down to explore their new undersea world. Catacomb is the next destination of our dive sites. There’s a green Turtle swimming through, Crown of thorns creeping along, Achilles Tang, Dragon Wrasse, Rock Mover Wrasse to name a few. The divers retreat back to the Kona aggressor where Chef Mike has prepared lunch. The next dive takes us to Pohue Bay. Pohue Bay has a Beautiful beach that divers can swim to. With palm trees swaying in the breeze and white sandy beach makes this beach very inviting. Pohue Bay dive site with its large rock formations and wall makes for a beautiful site. Pohue Bay will also be our night dive today. Divers suit up for some more discoveries of the undersea world.

May 16th

Aloha, What a beautiful morning. We have moved the Kona Aggressor to The Hive for the morning dives. The Hive is a dive ranging in depth from 15ft(3m) to 120ft(40M), with coral formations that looks like a massive beehive. The Hive site has many pinnacles to swim to and look for Nudibranchs. Dive creature sightings for today consist of slipper lobster, Hawkish, Horned Helmet, Damsel Fish, eels and an octopus. The Second dive of the day is Robb’s Reef. Robb’s Reef is a protected dive site that’s great for staying overnight. Robb’s Reef with its large rock formation is great place for nudibranchs. We find egg eating Nudibranch and a green turtle swimming by. The divers return after an awesome night dive to find the crew has hot chocolate and a warm towels waiting for them.

May 17th

We have now moved to Paradise Pinnacle dive site. The Paradise Pinnacle is a 30ft(10m) to a drop off of 100ft(30m) plus on the wall. With swim threw and large rock overhangs Paradise becomes a divers playground. The divers have many fish and creature sighting to tell about. The eels are the top story, from Dwarf moray eel to pencil eels to Moray eels. We also see big stonefish, after the divers return Chef Mike has prepared lunch and off we go to the AuAu Crater. AuAu Crater is a site that has a large deep hole that you swim down looking for small creatures in the nooks and crannies. We also see domino damselfish, flatworms, blue stripe butterfly fish, long nose butterfly fish and Hawaiian Sergeants. The next dive site brings us to the Lions Den, depths 50ft(16m) to an 80ft(24m) drop off. The Lions Den is a site with a large coral head and a river rock bed were the lion

Fish hang out. Lions Den has many nudibranchs on it, Egg eating Nudibranch, Varicose Phyllidia and Sphinx Phyllidia to name a few.

May 18th

The crew gets up early to get Kona Aggressor off the mooring and on its way to Dome. The divers will be exploring an area that is known for a swim through that leads to Dome area. The Dome has large areas of long finger corals reaching depths of 60ft (20m) to 20ft(6m). As you descend into the crevices and cracks the coral come alive with shrimp and lobsters. As they ascend to top of the there’s a zebra eel lurking along the coral. The divers return to KAII for lunch and to relax as we move to The Black Hole. It’s time to dive, ring the bell. The divers suit up to another fabulous dive on The Black Hole. The Black Hole is named after a lava tube that you descend into headfirst. The tube makes a sharp turn heading out to sea. We catch a glimpsed of a Day octopus swimming to hide from us as we swim by. The divers return to KAII for a well-deserved snack. Off we go to Garden eel Cove. Garden eel Cove will be our first Manta dive. Dinner is done and lets get ready for Manta’s. Divers suited, lights ready, cameras charged let’s go. As the divers sit patiently there wait is denied the grace of the manta. No worries we unhook KAII and head out to the Deep blue for Pelagic. There we see small micro invertebrates. Returning to the vessel the divers are excited of their dive. Divers retire with invertebrates dancing in there head, if they only knew what was in-store for them tomorrow.

May 19th

It’s time to head to the Amphitheater. This dive is for thrill seekers. 80-foot swim thru, arches, small swim thru that bend around corners and end at15ft from the surface. The dive site is 30ft(10m) to 70ft (22m). Deep with beautiful canyons steep walls. We move next to Drift Wood. Drift Wood is known for its fabulous arches, at 40ft the arch takes you out to sea, what a view. There’s a little mini wall to scale that takes you to 80ft. there you can see, Lemon Butterfly, Dragon wrasse, Amber Jack and blue lined Snapper. The divers return to a marvelous lunch.

May 20th

As the divers near the end of there diving we still have 2 more fabulous dives to go. Lets finish this week with dives at the Aquarium and Shark Fin. The

Aquarium is a shallow 30ft (10m) to 50ft(16m) site with large coral formations that dot the bottom. The divers get to swim with a white tip on the Aquarium the white tip lazily swims observing from a distance. There’s nudibranches, Sergeant Majors, Frogfish relaxing on the bottom. Next we move to Shark Fin Rock. Shark Fin is 20ft(7m) and the bottom is at 60ft(20m), There’s a white tip that lives near by, that comes out to see the divers. If you had to finish a week a diving with a great site Shark Fin is fabulous. The divers return to the Kona Aggressor for an all out barbecue on the aggressor, hats off to Chef Mike for a beautiful week of meals. The guests now have the task of cleaning, packing there gear and farewells.

May 21st

Iron divers this week are Anthony, Tammy, Brad congratulations. As we say farewell to our diver friends, we say hello to new and anxious divers